
Live From Main Street host Laura Flanders.
MAKING CONTACT - a weekly international radio program
August 27, 2008
Election Coverage 2008, your streets, your stories. We bring you “Live From Main Street,” the third of five town hall meetings that will take place across the U.S. this election year. Hosted by popular radio personality, Laura Flanders and produced by the Media Consortium and adapted for radio by Making Contact.
On this edition, so you say you want change? But what does this buzzword really mean and what does real, sustainable change look like? Laura Flanders hit the streets of Denver at the Democratic National Convention to find out.
Event will feature:
Laura Flanders, Free Speech TV's GRITtv host; Van Jones, Green for All founder and president and Ella Baker Center founder; Rep. Donna Edwards, MD-4th District; Karen Pope-Onwukwee, 2008 DNC delegate (MD); Jim Hightower, National Radio Commentator, Public speaker and "Swim Against the Current" author; Faye Wattleton, Center for the Advancement of Women founder; David Barsamian, Alternative Radio founder.
Live From Main Street is a tour of the U.S. in election year 2008, hosted by Grit TV's Laura Flanders, produced by The Media Consortium and adapted for radio by the National Radio Project.
Live From Main Street Crew
Host: Laura Flanders, Grit TV
Produced by: The Media Consortium
Making Contact Crew
Executive Producer: Tena Rubio
Producer: Andrew Stelzer
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Elena Botkin-Levy and Aubrey Green
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
For more information:
Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
1536 Wynkoop Street, B500
Denver, CO 80202
303-572-1536
www.sustainablecolorado.org
Alternative Radio
1900 Folsom Street
Boulder, CO 80302
303-473-0972
info@alternativeradio.org
www.alternativeradio.org
Center for the Advancement of Women
25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1120
New York, NY 10001
212-391-7718
www.advancewomen.org
Color of Change
www.colorofchange.org
Comedy of Laughing Liberally Lee Camp
87 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 11217
212-967-7079
www.livingliberally.org
Free Press
Washington Office
501 Third Street, NW, Suite 875
Washington, DC 20001
202-265-1490
www.freepress.net
Green for All
1611 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA, 94612
510-663-6500
www.greenforall.org
Grit TV
laura@lauraflanders.com
www.lauraflanders.com
Latin American Research and Service Agency (LARASA)
309 West 1st Avenue
Denver, CO 80223
303-722-5150
pollybaca@larasa.org
Live From Main Street
323-424-3010
Tracy Fleischman
tfleisch@themediaconsortium.com
www.LiveFromMainStreet.com
David Sirota
Creator Syndicate
5777 West Century Boulevard, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90045
313-337-7003
www.myspace.com/davidsirot
Jim Hightower
87 Marcos Street
Austin, TX 78702
512-477-5588
www.jimhightower.com/air
Rep. Donna Edwards
(MD-4th District)
9200 Basil Court, Suite 221
Largo, MD 20774
303-773-4094
or
2470 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-8699
info@donnaedwardsforcongress.com
http://donnaedwards.house.gov/index.shtml